Howard retired from Starbucks after 21 years, where he led both the domestic business, as President of North America, and was the founding President of Starbucks International. He participated in the growth of the company from 28 stores to over 15,000. He has written two books: The Magic Cup and It's Not About the Coffee.
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Simon is the founder of The Fitpreneurs, a global community of fitness and health professionals who are committed to exceptional growth in all areas of their lives.
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Rachael is a fashion designer and founder of Jewel Toned, and e-commerce company that is disrupting the lingerie industry.
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Jay makes stuff to help makers. He is most known as the host and creator of Unthinkable, the podcast that shares eye-opening stories of craft & creativity in business. He's an ex-Googler, ex-startupper, and current VP of content at NextView, a seed-stage VC firm in Boston & NYC.
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Alec is the founder and CEO of DesignCrowd.com - a website that helps small businesses and entrepreneurs 'crowdsource' graphic, logo and web designs from designers around the world. He launched DesignCrowd in 2007 from his family home, and today DesignCrowd has over 500,000 designers and ~$20 million in revenues.
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Eben started his online business alone in his bedroom with just a computer. He had never built a website, sold a product online, set up a shopping cart, or written an email newsletter, and he now has launched 10 different brands and businesses that have done over $1 million in sales. Today we're going to chat about how to take what you know, create a Digital Product with it, and build an online business.
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Peter is a serial entrepreneur, success coach, author, speaker and philosopher. Having left school at age 16 with no qualifications, he has started 27 businesses in nearly as many years. Half of these were started with no money, some failed majestically, two dozen were successful, and several grew to eight figures.
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Kevin is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985.
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As a funding strategist, John helps Tech CEOs craft a compelling pitch that engages investors to fund their startup. He hosts The Successful Pitch podcast with investors from around the world. He won salesperson of the year during his 15 year career at Conde Nast.
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Sarah is an Executive Leadership Coach and Business Mentor. For over 17 years she has developed business leaders across various industries. She works with female CEOs building high growth companies as well as international brands and Fortune 100 & 500 companies such as Facebook, Lululemon Athletica, Intel, Cisco, Levi’s, Box, and more.
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